Definitions for evaporate

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evaporate e·vap·o·rate

Spelling: [ih-vap-uh-reyt]

IPA: /ɪˈvæp əˌreɪt/

Evaporate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in evaporate (aaeeoprtv).

Definitions for evaporate

verb (used with object)

1. to convert into a gaseous state or vapor; drive off or extract in the form of vapor:
2. to extract moisture or liquid from, as by heat, so as to make dry or to reduce to a denser state:
3. to cause to disappear or fade; dissipate:

verb (used without object)

1. to change from a liquid or solid state into vapor; pass off in vapor. Synonyms: vaporize.
2. to give off moisture.
3. to disappear; vanish; fade: Synonyms: evanesce.

Origin of evaporate

1375-1425; late Middle English evaporaten Latin ēvapōrātus (past participle of ēvapōrāre to disperse in vapor); see e-¹, vapor,

Examples for evaporate

How can it when the water from the oceans cannot evaporate to form clouds?

It will evaporate fast there, and leave its salt on the bottom of the hollow.

With the demise of the printed book, profits will evaporate.

The heat radiating from the sun dries up water and causes it to evaporate.

If he coyly waffles this time around, his support will evaporate quicker than you can say Fred Thompson.

If the pools lose their inflow of circulating cooling water, the water in the pools will evaporate.

Otherwise the tenuous calm that has remained in the region during the past few years may evaporate.

The beds should now be watched and should not be allowed to evaporate or dry out.

Ah, that charm by charm should evaporate from the talisman which had enchanted our existence!

Natural forces of this kind do not, it must be recollected, evaporate.